A Lesson in Perseverance

I want to get sober and more importantly, I want to stay sober for the rest of my life. And I sort of know how. I mean, I’ve been trying and failing for the last 15 years to do just that (although I like to think of these efforts as “practicing”). Every time I tried,…

ache: (1)(a) to suffer an unusual dull persistent pain (b) to become distressed or disturbed (as with anxiety or regret) (c) to feel compassion (2) to experience a painful eagerness or yearning Somewhere during my life as an excessive drinker, I wrote down this definition of the word ache on a little slip of paper…